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Willa Cather
“Perhaps if older people were a little more honest, and a boy were not taught to idealize in women the very qualities which can make him utterly unhappy.”
Willa Cather, One of Ours

Alain de Botton
“He’s learned over many painful episodes, that his beautiful, intelligent wife doesn’t do reassurance. Better than that, he ‘s started to understand why. She isn’t mean; it’s her experience of men and her defenses against being let down kicking in. It’s just how she processes challenges. It helps to see these things; he is accruing alternatives to vengeance and anger. Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain.”
Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

Wallace Stegner
“Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention.”
Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

Elif Shafak
“We are all like clay tablets, chipped around the edges, hiding our little secrets and cracks.
Not everyone, though .
Everyone, I promise you.
Is there such a thing as absolute happiness? Never ending success? A perfect marriage? A quick fix to cure anxiety? We want to believe there is . Then we’re defeated, humbled. We learn to accept there will always be something amiss, something broken, and unless we are kind to ourselves it won’t change, this feeling of incompleteness.”
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak
“In my 20s I prided myself on handling booze better than most. We’d go to pubs and all the girls would stop after a few shots, except for me – I could drink the men under the table. In my early 30s, I was proud that I was a ‘high functioning ‘ drinker. I could easily go days and weeks without drinking. No problem! I loved proving that I had self control, but I also knew there was a reward at the end. Drinking was how I motivated and calmed myself. Then things started to shift, but I still believed it was all fine. I had never been a mean drunk. Never argumentative. I just got a lovely little buzz. Surely there was no harm in that. It was mild and mellow, except I could no longer have a good time without nursing a stiff drink. I had zero patience with people, unless I was tipsy enough, in which case I didn’t care. It took me a long time to acknowledge something was off.”
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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